About
Kaoru Kobayashi
Overview
Kaoru Kobayashi is a Japanese actor born in Kyoto. A multi-award winning thespian, he won best actor at the 30th Yokohama Film Festival and best-supporting actor at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Sorobanzuku.
Known for
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| 2024 | Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai | Actor | 仙川鶴一 | 69 Fair |
| 2024 | Promised Land | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2024 | The Yin-Yang Master Zero | Actor | Fujiwara Yosuke | 58 Average |
| 2024 | The Tiger and Her Wings | Actor | 69 Fair |
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| 2023 | Kubi | Actor | Tokugawa Ieyasu | 59 Average |
| 2023 | Tsugaru Lacquer Girl | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 2023 | Worry Not, She's the Boss | Actor | Yamagami Tatsuo | 69 Fair |
| 2023 | The Boy and the Heron | Actor | Noble Pelican (voice) | 71 Good |
| 2023 | THE DAYS | Actor | Furuya | 74 Good |
| 2023 | Fixer | Actor | Ichiro Suzaki | 69 Fair |
| 2023 | Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2 | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2023 | Trapped Balloon | Actor | Shigezo Kojima | N/A N/A |
| 2022 | Dr. Coto's Clinic | Actor | Shoichi Hoshino | 58 Average |
| 2022 | Yes, I Can't Swim | Actor | Professor Kamoshita | 59 Average |
| 2022 | Winter Rose | Actor | Giichi Wataguchi | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Solomon's Perjury | Actor | 津崎 正男 | 69 Fair |
| 2021 | Arc | Actor | Rihito | 58 Average |
| 2021 | Reach Beyond the Blue Sky | Actor | Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father] | 69 Fair |
| 2021 | We Made a Beautiful Bouquet | Actor | Hirotaro Yamane | 61 Fair |
| 2020 | Off the Record | Actor | Noto Toru | 70 Good |
| 2019 | Top League | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2019 | The Great White Tower | Actor | Mataichi Zaizen | 69 Fair |
| 2019 | The Island of Cats | Actor | Iwao | 59 Average |
| 2019 | His Lost Name | Actor | Tetsuro | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Miracles | Actor | Shun Samejima | 68 Fair |
| 2018 | The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2018 | Hagetaka | Actor | Ryosuke Iijima | N/A N/A |
| 2018 | Hagetaka | Actor | Ryosuke Iijima | N/A N/A |
| 2017 | The Miracles of the Namiya General Store | Actor | Takeo Matsuoka | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Lear on the Shore | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 2017 | Mukoku | Actor | Shozo Yatabe | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Kiseki: Sobito of That Day | Actor | Seiichi Morita | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Grade A Reversal | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2017 | Heaven | Actor | Doizaki Gen | 69 Fair |
| 2017 | An Emblem Dedicated To You | Actor | Nakagawa Akiko | N/A N/A |
| 2016 | Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate" | Actor | Jisaku Koka | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Midnight Diner 2 | Actor | Master | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories | Actor | Master | 73 Good |
| 2016 | Natsumi's Firefly | Actor | Sakakiyama | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Hibana: Spark | Actor | 72 Good |
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| 2016 | Botchan | Actor | Madonna’s father | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Godan | Actor | 69 Fair |
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| 2015 | Best Friends in Love | Actor | Serizawa Hirotoshi | 69 Fair |
| 2014 | Midnight Diner | Actor | Master | 60 Fair |
| 2014 | Climbing to Spring | Actor | Isao Nagamine | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Hello life from 55 | Actor | 70 Good |
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| 2014 | Villiany Ganbo | Actor | Gen Koshimizu | 70 Good |
| 2013 | The End of Summer | Actor | Shingo Kosugi | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Woman | Actor | Uesugi Kentaro | 70 Good |
| 2013 | Furueru Ushi | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2013 | Leaving on the 15th Spring | Actor | Toshiharu Nakazato | 59 Average |
| 2013 | The Great Passage | Actor | Kohei Araki | 60 Fair |
| 2013 | Kyokuhoku Rhapsody | Actor | Masashi Sera | N/A N/A |
| 2013 | Kyokuhoku Rhapsody | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2011 | Carnation | Actor | Zensaku Ohara | 70 Good |
| 2011 | The Castle of Sand | Actor | 70 Good |
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| 2011 | The Egoists | Actor | Kazuyuki Ninomiya | 58 Average |
| 2011 | The Marriage Counselor | Actor | Syogo Yanagisawa | 70 Good |
| 2010 | Sketches of Kaitan City | Actor | Ryuzo Higa | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Abraxas | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2010 | A Crowd of Three | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 2010 | Haru's Journey | Actor | Kinoshita | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Boys on the Run | Actor | Suzuki san | 58 Average |
| 2009 | News Sokuho wa Nagareta | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2009 | Midnight Diner | Actor | Master | 74 Good |
| 2009 | Kamui | Actor | Hanbei | 59 Average |
| 2009 | The Sun in Kurobe | Actor | Kunpei Takiyama | N/A N/A |
| 2008 | Then Summer Came | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 2008 | Vacation | Actor | Toru Hirai | 59 Average |
| 2008 | Double Trouble | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2007 | Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad | Actor | Oton | 59 Average |
| 2006 | The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya | Actor | Yasutada Kamiya | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Tales from Earthsea | Actor | The King (voice) | 63 Fair |
| 2005 | Female | Actor | Old man | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog | Actor | Mitsuru Watanabe | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Like Asura | Actor | Takao Satomi | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Dr. Coto's Clinic | Actor | 星野正一 | 70 Good |
| 2002 | Ghiblies: Episode 2 | Actor | Toshi-chan (Voice) | 59 Average |
| 1999 | The Black House | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 1999 | Secret | Actor | Heisuke Sugita | 59 Average |
| 1999 | The Washing Machine | Actor | Taiji Ogami | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | Coquille | Actor | Tatsuya Urayama | 59 Average |
| 1998 | Ten urara | Actor | 松尾良治 | N/A N/A |
| 1997 | Princess Mononoke | Actor | Jikobo (voice) | 81 Very good |
| 1996 | The Way of Osaka Financing 1 | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1996 | ナニワ金融道 | Actor | 桑田 澄男 | 69 Fair |
| 1994 | Uneasy Encounters | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1993 | Chibusa | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1993 | The Tomb & the Divorce | Actor | Yoshinori Ishino | N/A N/A |
| 1993 | Sunflower on the Hill | Actor | Yuzuhara Kohei | N/A N/A |
| 1993 | The Last U-Boat | Actor | Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Shimanto River | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 1990 | Hong Kong Paradise | Actor | Hachirou Ooishi | N/A N/A |
| 1989 | Untama giru | Actor | Giru | 58 Average |
| 1988 | Love and Action in Osaka | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 1988 | Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad | Actor | Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4) | 59 Average |
| 1987 | Twilight of the Cockroaches | Actor | Saitô | 59 Average |
| 1987 | Iki no Iiyatsu | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1986 | For Business | Actor | Miyabi Sakuramiya | N/A N/A |
| 1985 | And Then | Actor | Tsunejiro Hiraoka | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Love Letter | Actor | Tetsushi Kamiya | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Paradise View | Actor | Reishu Goya | 58 Average |
| 1984 | The Funeral | Actor | Inose | 60 Fair |
| 1984 | The Wangan Highway | Actor | Nakamura | N/A N/A |
| 1983 | ふぞろいの林檎たち | Actor | 仲手川 耕一 | 69 Fair |
| 1983 | The Second Love | Actor | Hideo Hyuga | 58 Average |
| 1982 | The Dropout | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 1982 | Toge no Gunzo | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1981 | Hear the Wind Sing | Actor | Me | 59 Average |
| 1981 | Call from Darkness | Actor | Tatsuo Tamura | 58 Average |
| 1979 | Eighteen Years, to the Sea | Actor | Eisuke Morimoto | 59 Average |
| 1977 | Ballad of Orin | Actor | Torazo | 59 Average |
| 1976 | The Sea of Genkai | Actor | 59 Average |
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